Hugh Jeego's huge ego, signing off

So I said I'd let you know how it went. It went. I'm bad. I mean, bad...and I know it. Maybe I shouldn't get too cocky, considering I haven't gotten any grades back yet, but I have a feeling I did well. I got hit with everything being due two days before I thought it all was and, BAM, I got it done, with time to spare.

To everyone who reads this, the semester was fun. Busy but fun. And now to work. I'm going from doing nothing but full-time college student to having probably two jobs (I'll find out about the 2nd tomorrow) and an internship. Nuckin Futz. Anyway, waking up early sucks, but I like money. I hope everyone else has a great summer. See you next semester. But, if you graduated, good luck in life and everything else you do. Holler at me if you see me on the street ;)

we don't have Dance Dance Revolution

Soooooo, you're dumb.


Awesome! I start working on this final, for this class, and get an email from another professor saying that he'll be in class TUESDAY for the final. Wait...what? Tuesday!?! I thought it was Thursday. I'm in trouble. Not really, but I have a lot more work to do than I thought I would for the next two days, when I thought I'd have five. Is this going to be the time that procrastinating bites me in the ass. Nope! I'm bad, I can handle this, but it sucks that I have a couple all-nighters ahead of me. I guess I may not be the only one. It is, after all, finals week, right?

And besides, I wasn't really procrastinating...I was assuming, because I thought, I assumed, that Thursday was the last day of class, and naturally our finals would be then, no? What is it they say about asses, when you assume?

I'll let you know how it goes...

Thomas Hearns was the real "Hitman"

We got the fight last night at my house (Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton). Holy Shit!!! I was only reminded last night why Hatton coined himself "Hitman". Not what you think, just read on. From the first bell he came out T-Rexxing his left to measure for the right, his knockout punch, and that's all he has. That's why he's "the Hitman". Hatton is a great fighter...but a horrible boxer. I bet the guy wins every barfight he gets in, but he can't box. Hence getting destroyed by technical boxers, Mayweather last year and Pacquiao last night. And last night he didn't just destroyed, he got embarressed.

After the tap in the second, Hatton was laid out! I mean LAID OUT. He wasn't just out before he hit the canvas, he was out on contact. Out cold. And, he got knocked twice in the first round. The first one wasn't so bad, but it was a sign of things to come. Hatton, thinking too much about a knockout (maybe he knew that was the only chance he had against Pacquiao) he kept leaving himself open. He got hit throwing a wild hook and went down. The second knockdown, a show of strength. Pac Man said, "dude, I'm not just fast." Pacquiao hit Ricky through a block and knocked him down after the tap for the second first round knock down and hurt him. Why you hittin' yourself, why you hittin' yourself!?! You could see it on Hatton's face, he was looking at the ref, like, "Yeah I'm fine, but I won't be for long. There's nothing I can do, he's just too good."

Then the second round came and Hatton exhibited his arrogance. I don't mean as a person, he seems to be a decent enough dude, but as a fighter. He needed to rest, he needed to spend the second round covering up and wrapping up. He needed that 3 minutes and the between round one's. He needed that 5 minutes, but he wouldn't take it. He wouldn't admit, to himself to being outmatched and the only way he was going to win was to get his legs back, and he never did. He came out swinging, wildly. Pacquiao just picked his spots, beat him a little and after the tap in the second...nighty night. Knockout of the decade!

After the fight, Ricky's trainer, Floyd Mayweather Sr. told him he shouldn't fight again. Told him it's his decision, but I wouldn't fight again, if I were you. Ricky's Dad said, when he got out of the hospital that he didn't have a mark on him...I bet, all the damage was internal. Hatton told his Dad also, that Pacquiao was wild and that induced him to come inside (and stick his chin out). Really? I think I only saw Hatton throw 2 or 3 punches that weren't wild. Manny was in control the whole time.

I knew Manny would take it in a stoppage, but not like that. I had no idea he would be that dominant. If you get a chance to see it, you gotta see it. Normally I'd be pissed about paying PPV prices for a little less than 2 rounds, but it was worth it. Plus, I DVR'd it so I got to watch it over and over again. Hell, I may watch it again right now.

Last night reminded me of two things. One, why I like boxing better than UFC. In UFC, you never know who's going to win. That's not a sport. In sports, 9 times out 10, the better team, or player (or fighter) wins. The one who trains the hardest, the one who works the hardest, wins. Not in MMA, it's about 50-50. Don't get me wrong, I like to watch it, but I like boxing better, that's just me. Not to say that you always know who's going to win in boxing, but you can tell who trained harder and is a better fighter as the fight goes on, you don't get that with the MMA leagues.

And two, last night Money Mayweather Jr. said he's fighting Marquez in July!!! Siiiick! I've been wanting to see Mayweather-Pacquiao for two years, and now you're telling me we just might get to see it?!?! We just might get the fight of the last 100 years. And not just the fight of the last hundred years, but the fight of the centrury that actually is between two big names. Huge. $60 million fight, probably. $30mil each. I wouldn't doubt it. I mean, I shouldn't say it yet. Mayweather has to beat Marquez and Marquez gave even Pacquiao fits in their two fights, a draw and Pacman decision. But if Mayweather wins, the inevitible turn is to Manny. It's the pay-day Mayweather needs to get the IRS of his back because of his MC Hammer-like retirement for the last 14 months, it's the pay-day everyone wants, Manny has Floyd's "pound-for-pound" title now that Money retired, and it's the fight everyone wants to see. And, they have the same promotion. December, maybe Jan. Mayweather-Pacquiao, fight of the century. Not just the century so far, but of the last 100 years. This is Ali-Frazier, this is Ali-Foreman, this is Joe Louis-Rocky Marciano, this is Sugar Ray-Hagler. I promise you...if/when it happens. You heard it here first...

I'm going to be pissed

I swear to God, if someone gives me Pig Flu, I'm going to make out with their mom. So don't give it to me. But seriously, this stuff is kind of scary. I mean, the levels that government agencies to designate the seriousness of threats has never really been a good gauge for the actual danger, eg. the color-coded terrorist threat level. But in reading up on this Swine Flu thing, I read that CDC has a 6-level system that was instituted in the early 90's. Since then it has never been over 3. In the last 2 or 3 weeks since the outbreak it has gone up to 5. Kind of scary. They are the "experts" and they feel threatened enough to raise it like that? Nuts. And the other kind of scary thing is something I had never even heard of until this Pig Flu thing came out. In 1918, a third of the world's population got sick and more than 50 million people died of a flu strain. Now, I know that people get flus all the time and influenza strains change every year, that's why for people who get flu shots, you have to get a new one every year, but it's just creepy, to me, that that is actually possible.

We'll see I guess, how bad it really gets. Only one death in the U.S. so far, an infant, but virus evolve so fast and if we don't have any kind of vaccine for it, it could get bad, real fast. Ok, now everyone, freakout!!!

speaking of free speech

Here's the article on cnn.com about the FCC and the Supreme Court.

So, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) sued the major TV networks for indecency. The FCC is trying to make it a crime to be "indecent" on network TV. The networks won in Appeals Court where the judges called the regulations the FCC arbitrary. But the FCC appealed again and the Supreme Court decided to hear the case, overturning the appeals court's decision to not penalize the networks for a few F-bombs and stuff.

So here's a couple of things I found funny, first, The Court wouldn't decide on the free-speech issue the networks brought up. They sent that issue back to the lower court. Second there were a few comments by the Court in their decision and the FCC in their comments (and the responses to them) after that I kind of laughed at. I normally like Scalia because he's kind of a dick, but when in his concurrence he he says, "Even when used as an expletive, the F-word's power to insult and offend derives from its sexual meaning." Wait, really? There are plenty of other meanings for the F-Bomb and honestly he doesn't seem to have a clue here as to what insults people. Considering the fact that if it didn't sell, the networks wouldn't have ran it. After the "wardrobe malfunction" during the Superbowl a few years ago, ALL live TV is on 15 second delay. So the examples given in the article about things said on live TV were actually let through by the producers. Yes, I understand that what sells may not be what EVERYONE wants, but that means that more people want it, or simply don't care, than the number of people that do care or make a big deal about it.

In response to the Scalia comment Justice Stevens, in his descent said, "As any golfer who has watched his partner shank a short approach knows, it would be absurd to accept the suggestion that the resultant four-letter word uttered on the golf course describes sex or excrement and is therefore indecent. But that is the absurdity the FCC has embraced in its new approach to indecency."

Dude, that's one of the best arguments I've ever heard. Partly because I golf, and even if you read my last blog and know that it is my meditation, I still get mad at bad shots, when I hit them. And partly because it makes sense. If I say, "holy shit," does anyone really think I'm talking about God dropping a deuce?

The FCC is lame. At least they don't have control over cable TV and they can't FUCK with my South Park, or Eastbound and Down.

my sanctuary

I grew up on golf courses. Almost all of my baby pictures are on Spring Hills GC. Mine was the first name ever on their member's board, when I was 6 months old. I love golf, but I suck at it. I've been on golf courses for 30 years and I'm still a 15 or 16 handicap. which means I bogey almost every hole, on average. But, none of that matters.

My mind runs, a lot. It never stops actually. I've tried conventional forms of meditation, the gym, all kinds of stuff. Until one day I was watching one of my favorite movies of all time, Layer Cake. Keep in mind I've seen this movie, I don't know, a lot of times, even before this, but one time I realized what one of the characters means when he says that meditation is concentrating the front of the mind so the rest of the mind can be at peace. I realized that's what golf is for me. No matter how bad (or well) I play, my mind only focuses on what I'm doing at that moment, and/or for the 4 hours on the course. It's the only place on the planet where I only think about one thing. Golf is my meditation, my sanctuary, my peace.

It's expensive meditation, but the more I play, the better I feel. I hope everyone can find a peaceful place in their mind.

I hate hippies!

Not the real hippies. Not 60's and 70's hippies who had really lived on themselves. Not the hippies that who were REALLY enlightened to what was going on in the world. I was driving today and was reminded of how people in Santa Cruz think that wearing a black shirt, standing on an overpass, holding a sign and creating traffic somehow actually does something. Do I hate real hippies?

No, I hate fake hippies, the hippies that shop at Trader Joe's and think that the organic label is somehow equivalent to growing it themselves, and that it makes them somehow better than the single mom who shops at Safeway for the sales. Don't get me wrong I shop at Trader Joe's too (and Safeway), but it's all about the attitude. Look for it and you'll see it, if you don't it's probably you. The hippies that get ALL their news from Alex Jones and believe that it's not one-sided just like FoxNews and CNN, only skewed the other way. The hippies that think anti-growth can work, when all it really does is make more traffic for the PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE! The hippies that follow Ralph Nader and don't realize that he's no better than they are holding a sign on the overpass fucking up traffic, talking about wanting to change stuff, but merely wasting their resources (in Nader's case money, in the Bay's case, time, yours and mine) by merely riling people up, and for what? To say you did it? To say you got through to people? WHAT FREAKING GOOD DOES THAT DO? DO SOMETHING! Anything! I don't care, but your fucking sign doesn't change a thing. You want change, do something different, don't just talk (hold a sign) that says your pissed (or a more national example, tea parties). Really!?! And what are you accomplishing, really? OOOOO, now they know you're angry. So? You think they really care when all you do is say it when all you do is talk. Affect Change, idiots. Good thing you actually made anything at all happen. SHUT UP!!!! Because all your doing is making peoples' days harder than they already are. The last thing this country needs right now is for people who claim to be trying fix it (though again, are they really?) making lives of good people harder. I'm not at all calling for a revolution or anything like that, all I'm saying is they aren't doing anything besides making everyone else's life that they say their helping, harder.

And I know I'm at ground zero and I may piss some people off with this, but I grew up in the area and I'm one of the few that didn't buy into the shit. I'm one of the few that actually researches both sides of a story before I pick a side (if I pick a side), and I'm fed up with what I see. I guess what I'm describing are yuppies. I love real hippies, but I don't think there are any left.

my kid

So my 2nd grade son's teacher had been picking on him at school. I'm interning at a law office and when I asked them what my rights are about getting him transferred they came up with some stuff for me to use. Background: This had ben going on for a few months. In December we had a meeting with the principle, his teacher, his mom, me, his grandma (who teaches at the school), and some other school staff and my chick and I thought some good things came out of it. However, even though Markus wasn't aware that we had had that meeting, for him things got worse. He came a few days after that meeting and said things were worse than ever in class. A couple months of trying to get the principle to change Markus' class reaped nothing. So I finally wrote a letter that had all the legal responsibilities and an outline of what the teacher had done (she said "crap" aboout his work a couple times and used Markus as an example when saying to other kids, "oh great, now you're slower than Markus"), in it. Now keep in mind the kid is smart, he gets the stuff but he gets super distracted, really easily. We feel the teacher's pain here, we have him at home and it's the same, but the problem is she is an adult and a 2nd grade teacher who is now taking her frustration out on a 7 year-old. Also, Markus internalizes everything, he takes everything personally, even when he gets in trouble at home. The difference is, at home, and everywhere else in his life where he sometimes gets disciplined for not staying focus, like his Kung Fu classes, once he get's torn down, he gets built back up. In class he wasn't getting that.

In the teacher's defense, I understand, I think, what she was doing. She was looking for way to get through to him. A way to make him stay focused. The problem is, when she figured out it wasn't working she didn't change it, she got worse. Like I said, after three and a half months of this, since the December 15th meeting, I knew something else had to be done. I worte a legal letter outlining everything and the laws, and that Markus had to be moved from that class immediately, no questions, just make it happen, in a more proffesional manner.

Here's the thing, so without us doing this for 3 months, nothing happened. In a matter of two days of me taking action, shit got done. I went at sat with an Associate Superintendent, got pretty verbal with her, and that produced a call from the principle. Got pretty verbal with the principle the next day, and that produced the teacher crying in the principle's office and sitting Markus down during a break from class that day apologizing to him for the way she had treated him, telling him she'll make the effort to help him learn.

So, I tell you that so I can tell you this. At the risk of sounding arrogant, normally when situations like this arise, and I begin to research and devote resources to figuring people out, I know what's coming. But this time I was wrong, I'll admit it. When we went in the next morning to meet with the principle and now the teacher too, after she had apologized to Markus the morning before and he came home from school for the first time in months saying he had a good day (Again, he didn't know about that meeting either), I fully expected her to lie about what she said. I knew it was going to happen and I knew how I was going to discredit it (she had been caught in a lie about what other teachers had said about Markus, earlier in the semester), and I was going to go over everyone's head to the Super and school board. In fact, the day before I told the principle in a heated argument, that even though you have a good reputation now, they can topple like that, and that he would be held just as responsible for the neglect, discrimination, and emotional abuse that she had shown Markus because he is the principle and we'd been trying for 3 months to get him to do something about it, and he let it happen. Anyway, I was wrong, she didn't lie, she didn't deny, she was holding back tears ( I didn't believe the principle who told us she was crying the day before).

I had absolutely no thought in my mind of giving them a second, or what I felt was even more than that, chance, when we got there. But three things happened, Markus came home happy from school for the 1st time in months and at this age, getting turned off from school could have life long affects (and he has now for 4 straight days), we realized that had we done this footwork earlier (Assoc. Super., letter, etc) the teachers attitude may have changed then, and I was wrong about what was going to happen. Because of those three things we gave them an opportunity to not have their reputations irreparably damaged and make it right with the kid. It's like I told the principle "I know you have a good reputation in this district, but when it comes to children, your reputation can topple from the pedestal like that, if your responsible for damaging them. You may as well be labled a sex offender." I know, I'm an asshole.

Moral of the story. We admitted where we were wrong, they admitted where they wrong, and I even admitted, in my own mind, where I was wrong (about the teacher's following actions that didn't happen...yes I can admit it...I know, weird), and all of that resulted in what was best for Markus.

nevermind

So, nevermind, I'm taking this one down because it may lead to something else I write later. What that means for you, if you saw it, is that once I wrote it, it became my writing, which is my art, and legally I have exclusive rights to it until 80 years after my death. Look it up. Therefore, you can't steal it or use it to write your own stuff. Not saying you are thieves, just saying I don't want anyone to take my idea, whether directly or indirectly.

Isaac Newton was right, Apples do hurt your head

Let me just start by saying Steve Jobs is douchey. For those that don't know, Steve Jobs is the guy that runs Apple. First of all, I have to admit, Steve Jobs is a marketing genius and I respect him for that. He knows what people want to hear and he gives it to 'em. But what the people want to hear and the truth are not always one in the same. Eg. Here's an ad Apple ran insinuating that Microsoft had spent more money on ads than it had on it's operating system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c01fGaPGFJE

But the funny thing is Apple ran that ad in the form of an ad campaign they'd been running against PC for a couple of years already, only after Microsoft finally challenged the Mac ads with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi1se9rH7S8

"Let's pound 'em and when they respond, we'll just say they shouldn't be spending money on ads." It's really just an example of the say one thing, do another that Apple and Jobs love to do, but there's more. I know that a lot of people love Apple, my wife loves Apple, she has two of them, I have two Windows based computers. I don't think Mac's are as user friendly as some people think, they just don't work for me. I understand their design software rocks, and that's fine. In fact I have a buddy that uses his Mac for his design stuff, but won't touch it for anything else, he uses his PC instead. And I also understand that they don't get viruses (a problem I don't have with my PC because I run the right stuff to keep from getting them). Which brings me to my biggest beef with Jobs. He was one of the major players being upset about Microsoft's cornering of the market in the antitrust suit against them in the 90's. They all thought Microsoft was this big evil corporation that had a monopoly on an industry. Isn't that exactly what Apple is doing right now? Go try to buy any ONE Apple product and see if it works properly without having at least one more. Yes it creates less virus because no one else is allowed to build anything else compatible, but no one else can make money on it either, and that's exactly what they said Microsoft was doing. Now let me clarify, I didn't have a problem with Bill Gates' business practices in the 90's and I thought the antitrust suit was garbage, and in all honesty, I don't really have have a problem with Jobs way of running business, corner it if you want, if you can, more power to you. I respect greatly the perseverance and determination it must take to get there, you earned it. But, don't, in the 90's say that Microsoft is monopolizing the market just so the government will make them stop and you can do it in 2000's instead. That's my problem with them. I'm a PC.

A letter to a douchebag. (Really!?!)

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Dear San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom,

I recently was messing around on Facebook and saw an add for your exploratory committee. Really? The worst politician California has (and we have some other horrible ones) is considering running for Governor? Really!?! You've got to be kidding me. Dude, the only reason you're still the mayor of SF and you keep winning is because you may as well be running against yourself with who keeps challenging you. So you think because you got reelected you're doing a good job? That's got to be it, I know you can't think you're doing a good job because of what you've actually done for your city. There are many examples of people voting for you even though they hate you, because the alternative was worse and they could barely believe it. They were so excited to vote you out, and then, garbage. Ask them, and not the ones that your people tell you to ask.

Did anything AT ALL get any better on your watch? Crime? No. Roads? Not even close. The 49ers stadium that the citizens of the city voted for in 1997? You won't let them build it because they won't to do your job for you and clean up, or have the Feds clean up the RADIOACTIVE Hunter's Point ship yard. Yeah, thanks douchebag for giving us the radioactive rundown part of the city so we can clean it up for you. You are the main reason the 49ers want to move to Santa Clara (which is actually good for me because they'd be closer to where I actually live, but I'm not selfish like you, I don't want them to move just so they are closer to me, you want them to stay so they can your job for you), they can't get a new stadium built in SF with you and Barbara Boxer challenging every site they try in SF because you want them to take HP off your hands. In 1997 the citizens of SF voted to raises their tax a couple points for a couple years to raise money for a new 49ers Stadium. The people want it asshole, let 'em have it. You gotta be fucking Barbara Boxer, or are her illegitimate kid or something, every time you cry about something not going your way, she's the one to come to your rescue and make it look like you have all this federal backing.

Which brings me to my next point, SB861. You and Barbara Boxer (after you took it to the California Senate, but couldn't pull it off alone, like everything else) are trying to ban pit bulls in the state of California. The reason I say this is another failure of yours sir, is that you are only doing it because you don't research you spit out the first thing that comes up, and not because they are dangerous, but because you fail, every time, to punish the ones who are truly responsible, the owners. No? Are you sure? You were probably drunk and forgot the details, so lets refresh your memory. June 2005, Nicolas Faibish was killed by his two family pit bulls. Remember yet? I bet you're thinking, see, see, pit bulls are bad. Let me continue, the mother had raised the dogs to be aggressive (which you fail to admit can happen with any breed). One day, when one of the dogs was in heat, which makes them even more aggressive, the mother locked Nicolas in the basement with a shovel, alone, when she wanted to go to the store by herself. Jogging your memory? Not yet? Okay, the kid was killed by the dogs that THE MOTHER raised to be like that and that THE MOTHER left alone with her 6th grade son, and less than a week later you were in front of the California Senate pushing for Dangerous Breed Legislation, SB 861. Where consequently you used fear to get it passed in the state. Sounds like another politician we just had that used fear to get some bullshit legislation passed. You know what, you two have a lot in common, he got reelected because he ran against a patsy too. I'll give you one guess.

But I digress, here's the best part, I'll you remember this. Two days after the mauling you said, "We have to be realistic...you've got dogs that literally can kill. We've seen it demonstrated. If we can't change people's behavior and make them think what's in their best interest, then that's when government comes along and becomes a bit paternalistic."

Really? You mean like when your city government allowed that woman to get off with only two years in prison, not even enough time to punish her for the child neglect she exhibited, let alone, neglect that resulted in the death of her son. Is that the paternalistic government you're talking about? Or what about that you refused to press more charges on her and finally the feds had to come in and file murder charges against her two years later? No wonder you "can't change people's behavior," you're scared to try. As well, there have been other pit bull attacks that were the fault of the owner, and even Rottweiler attacks that you never mention.

You keep saying that pit bulls are inherently aggressive towards humans and that they are bred that way. Not true, in fact, the human aggression was bred out of them when they were originally created. There are countless other examples, that pit bulls are not the most vicious dogs, or inherently prone to violence, like you say all the time, but I'll leave it there, maybe you should do some research next time, and every time, before you start spouting nonsense. I will admit though, that when taught to be aggressive and mean they are the most aggressive and mean, yes. But it has to be almost beaten into them, and again, your and others like you's refusal to punish the ones doing that is THE reason it continues. Dog attacks are as much you're fault as anyone's. All that combined with the fact that you haven't done shit as mayor, and you want to run Governor? Really?

Maybe you were in Sacramento trying to prove you're right, or maybe you were in rehab when you were supposed to be doing things for the people of your city. I'm not knocking the benefits of rehab, being that I know them myself, but I wasn't in there when I was the Mayor of the city at the center of the 4th biggest market in this country with responsibilities to hundreds of thousands of people, was I?

I don't live in the city, but I have been around pit bulls my whole life and when I saw what you were doing in the Senate I began to research everything else about your politics, and look what I found out. You haven't done anything good that is real. You have people believing some of what you did was good, but you haven't really done shit. Please reconsider this governor thing. You're too fucking dumb to know what people really need and you don't do anything to help them anyway.


Sincerely,
Matthew Allen Mathias

An NWA song

The system works! At least it did for me yesterday, and there aren't too many times in my life I can say that and actually believe it. I had two traffic court dates yesterday. One in Marina and one in Walnut Creek. The first was because they added fines to something I would have paid if they would have done their job and notified me of it. They didn't, added $300 and I had to call them on it. The judge, who denied my original letter for an extension, more or less admitted the court's mistake and gave me an extension that I didn't ask for as well as rescinded the $300 collection fee.

The second, in Walnut Creek, was because the officer that pulled me over wrote me a ticket for being in the diamond lane, but then scoffed at my explanation for it. What happened: I was following an unsafe driver and the lane to my right was traveling at speeds 20 or mph faster than I was so it was unsafe to go into the right lane, so I passed the unsafe driver in the carpool lane. The cop was sitting there when I did, but didn't listen to me when I told him that, so I plead not guilty. I won.

So I put 300 miles on my car but saved $951 in fines. Worth it. But, at the Walnut Creek courthouse I was reminded of the disgust I have police. Their arrogance is baffling. You could just see it on their faces while they sat in the court. They were ALL thinking, "I can't believe this person would challenge something I say." Arrogance doesn't always have to be cockiness. It rears it's head most when it's something as simple as not having a willingness to look at anything other than what you already think. Police are the worst when it comes to that and that is the biggest problem that faces anyone, everyone that comes into contact with them. Everything they do from beating people up and breaking their own laws to something as small as driving the state owned vehicle to run personal errands all comes from it. And in all honesty, I have personal experience with it besides what I saw yesterday. NWA said it best...some of you know what I mean.

Who is really an unsafe driver?

Today, I'm here to complain about traffic. No, not the sitting in, I live in the Bay Area I've gotten used to it, or the driving in. Which consequently, I love to do (driving not sitting) when it's moving fast, I love weaving car braids, but the difference is I know my car and it's built for it, not like the guy who mobs his '85 Honda Civic at 95 on 101, losing hubcaps and stuff. Which brings me to my point. The 8 million or so people in the Bay Area, on the road? As a whole, they're dumb. Here's a few examples:


(a) The Rubbernecker
Listen, d__kface, now there's an accident on this side of the road too because you either rear ended someone, or your insistence on slowing down to watch caused someone to rear end you.

Eyes ahead...


(b) The REAL Unsafe Lane Changer
Good one, a-hole, are you stupid, or something?

Now, when I'm driving, I don't care if there is only a little space in front of me and you think you can get in. If you can fit, go for it. Just stay with traffic, don't mess up my commute. I'm told that cops (a-whole-nother topic in itself, and not just traffic cops...I'm sure I'll have something to say about the arrogance of police in another blog, some other time) will write tickets for "unsafe lane change"; however, it doesn't seem that they write 'em to the brilliant dude/chick that went from the right lane to the left lane and didn't take into account the flow of traffic. Which brings me to my next point:


(c) Rednecks, aka Semi-truck Drivers
Nice move, f__stick. You're going to make an extra $0.11 today because everyone else on the road but you and the 4 trucks you're going to take 15 minutes to pass up this hill, on this 2-lane one-way of this interstate was doing a steady, comfortably cruise controlled 85, until you decided that you're day was more important than ours.

Can you tell I drive I-5 to Oregon and/or SoCal alot? Between b and c, I'm seriously considering making my first order of business when I finish law school to do whatever I can to force "flow of traffic" legislation. No changing lanes, unless you are NOT going to force any car in the other lane to brake in any manner. $1000 fine. Put it right next to the littering sign.


There are many other d____bags on the road. But, these are the ones that are the freshest in my mind. Feel free to add to this list. Use it to vent if you want to. I did.

Hi, my name is Buck Foston. Nice to meet you

So, since this is my first time, and I'm a little nervous about performance and satisfying you, I'll start slow. ;)


First of all, I went to Game 5 of the NBA Finals last year at Staples, in L.A. Greatest sporting event experience of my life. I can't stress enough, that if you like sports and your favorite team makes it to a championship game, go. Finals tickets, Superbowl tickets, World Series tickets, all very expensive, but if your team is there, go! It's worth it, a lot of fun, and a hugely surreal experience. Secondly, yes, I'm a Lakers fan, so there is a little bias in my research; however, I'm not making anything up.

But, I digress. The 2008 Boston Celtics are the least deserving championship team in NBA history (with the exception of Kevin Garnett), here's why:

(a) Their GM, Danny Ainge, won the NBA Executive of the Year Award and didn't split it with Kevin McHale, the GM of the Minnesota Timberwolves who handed them Kevin Garnett for almost nothing because McHale is an ex-Celtic who wanted his old team to be good again...and the Celtics fans think the Pau Gasol trade to the Lakers was a gift?

(b) On top of not even coaching the Celtics' defense, the reason they won the title, Doc Rivers, the Celt's Head Coach, makes snide little comments about Phil Jackson complaining about officiating, but Doc argues EVERY call and can't resist jumping out of his seat, enraged at the mere sound of a whistle only to sit if the call is for the Celtics, watch him, you'll see it.

(c) Paul Pierce gets M V P chants? He should be getting M L S chants (for those that don't get that, MLS is Major League Soccer and soccer players fake injuries all the time to gain referee compassion, just like Pierce did.

(d) Sam Cassell and PJ Brown signed contracts with the C's only to acquire a ring without earning it and without doing much.

(e) After the Finals, Paul Peirce pronounced himself the best player in the world. Really? Really!?! He's not even the best player on his team! All I can do is laugh at this d____bag.

(f) The 17th title? More like 4th. All those Celts championships in the 50's and 60's came when there was only twelve teams in the league and one of those twelve, the C's, had 15 of the top 20 basketball players in the world on it. Most of the people claiming the Celtics to be the best organization in history have seen the Lakers win more titles in their lifetime than the Celtics have won in 40 years.

So on and so forth, undeserving, the lot of them, except Garnett...KG, you deserve it, and congrats.

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P.S. Actually, thanks Celtics, for giving us real Laker fans a real reason to hate you again. After 21 years of "Blah" towards you because you were sucking it up in last place, we can legitimately hate you with true passion again. Thank you so much for that.

A rivalry renewed. I can't even wear green, I love the Yankess and Colts now just because their fans hate Boston, and now I even have disgust for tea and brick buildings. It's just too bad that The Celtics aren't even the 2nd best team in their conference this year (Cavs and Magic are both better teams), so they may not even get a chance to go to the Finals and prove me right.

First Free Speech class blog

I'll take sides, sometimes I won't, I'll make arguments, I'll probably anger some and be loved by others. You decide.


more to come throughout the semester...